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Terms vs Glissette - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and glissette

is that terms is while glissette is (mathematics) the locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

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    glissette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) The locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.
    • (Webster 1913)

    History

    In the preface to the first edition of Notes on Roulettes and Glissettes(1870), the author, William Henry Besant stated, "I have ventured to introduce, and employ, the word Glissette, as being co-expressive with Roulette, a word which has been in use amongst mathematicians for a considerable time." http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=math;cc=math;view=toc;subview=short;idno=00630002